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>> the fed balance about $3 trillion. that was up from 800 billion before the crisis. 2 trillion increase. >> he decided on his own? >> with a committee but, yeah, pretty much. >> politicians don't do a great job of managing the economy and never have. >> says the man from a monarch state. >> no. but it's true. the bank of england used to have its interest rate decisions decided by an elected official and they were always done surprisingly around the time of election. they would cut interest rates at the time of election. not a good idea. >> neil irwin, thank you. the book is "the alchemists." thank you very much. great to have you on. >> it's an important book. >> good way at looking at things. >>> up next, cyndi lauper makes her broadway debut in one of the most talked about musicals of the season. jordan roth joins us to preview the new show. listen to his name. kinky boots! you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. [ male announcer ] if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ]
>> the fed balance about $3 trillion. that was up from 800 billion before the crisis. 2 trillion increase. >> he decided on his own? >> with a committee but, yeah, pretty much. >> politicians don't do a great job of managing the economy and never have. >> says the man from a monarch state. >> no. but it's true. the bank of england used to have its interest rate decisions decided by an elected official and they were always done surprisingly around the time of...
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able to pay back the tarp only because the fed has crushed interest rates for savers. on cds you get 40 basis points today. therefore they have earned an artificial fed gifted spread of tens of billions a quarter which they then used to rebuild their equity and pay back their t.a.r.p. the t.a.r.p. was paid back out of the hides of fixed income, retired americans and savers. and it's a fiscal policy, enormous import. if you put that up for a vote in congress, let's crush all of the middle class savers, let's deny them even a cent hardly from their hard-earned savings so that we can transfer it to the banks so they can get better and claim the t.a.r.p. work. >> was it not a fiction in some ways -- don't get me wrong. i take the opposite view for a moment. can an argument be made that we found ourselves in a challenge we found ourselves because people believe in the fiction and they thought they had more than what they actually had? because housing prices were probably overvalued? the market may have been overvalued and if you look where we are from the crisis four years
able to pay back the tarp only because the fed has crushed interest rates for savers. on cds you get 40 basis points today. therefore they have earned an artificial fed gifted spread of tens of billions a quarter which they then used to rebuild their equity and pay back their t.a.r.p. the t.a.r.p. was paid back out of the hides of fixed income, retired americans and savers. and it's a fiscal policy, enormous import. if you put that up for a vote in congress, let's crush all of the middle class...
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preserving their ability to buy guns illegal at gun shows and online and keeping the traffic market well fed. this amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest sit wecitizens to exerci fundamental right or face prosecution. as we have noted previously, expanding background checks at gun shows or elsewhere will not reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools. by the way, a new "the washington post"/abc poll show 86% support a law requiring background checks on people buying guns at gun shows or online. so as we toss it to you, joe, to take it to the panel on the front page of "the new york times," it kind of says it all. joe biden with his head in his hands. take it away. >> mika, there's so much to be said here. i think we have to start first let's start with the last thing you read. a statement by chris cox. a man i served with who i've always had great respect for. he's now the lobbyist for the nra. at least when he was in congress, he was considered a reasonable man. his statement was not reasonable. in fact, it wasn't even accurat
preserving their ability to buy guns illegal at gun shows and online and keeping the traffic market well fed. this amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest sit wecitizens to exerci fundamental right or face prosecution. as we have noted previously, expanding background checks at gun shows or elsewhere will not reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools. by the way, a new "the washington post"/abc poll show 86% support a...
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we're not totally dependent on the fed. but we are -- i think we are clearly in a period of slow growth and soft numbers. >> steve rattner, you got through every single chart. >> that's because joe wasn't here. >> and got a nice explanation, as well. steve, thank you. ron fournier, thank you, as well. >>> coming up, the nation's jeremy scahill takes us through america's covert wars in his new documentary "dirty wars" joining us next on "morning joe." [ female announcer ] are you sensitive to dairy? then you'll love lactose-free lactaid® it's 100% real milk that's easy to digest so you can fully enjoy the dairy you love. lactaid®. for 25 years, easy to digest. easy to love. for 25 years, what that's great. it won't take long, will it? nah. okay. this, won't take long will it? no, not at all. how many of these can we do on our budget? more than you think. didn't take very long, did it? this spring, dig in and save. that's nice. post it. already did. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. dig in and sav
we're not totally dependent on the fed. but we are -- i think we are clearly in a period of slow growth and soft numbers. >> steve rattner, you got through every single chart. >> that's because joe wasn't here. >> and got a nice explanation, as well. steve, thank you. ron fournier, thank you, as well. >>> coming up, the nation's jeremy scahill takes us through america's covert wars in his new documentary "dirty wars" joining us next on "morning...
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give my kid a gun that's been in my family a couple of generations without having to go through the feds to do it and i'll be for it. >> three things. two things. if same people get together and write the bill this thing could be done. one would think, fairly quickly if we were to talk in these terms. unfortunately, it appears those talking about it seem to want to take it further than it should. two, mika's point has something to do with abortion. you see some states taking steps to make abortion harder to get. what we may find, these two big social issues may find themselves before the court sooner, rather than later, some states making it easier to gets guns and some states making it hard to get guns. could be the court will decide whether or not some of these things are constitutional and what could product congress to act. on their own, congress doesn't seem poised or ready or politically courageous enough. 90% of americans want which is just background checks for those -- for -- but seems logical. >> it's just not enough. >> the gun shop owners i've talked to in this debate go, the
give my kid a gun that's been in my family a couple of generations without having to go through the feds to do it and i'll be for it. >> three things. two things. if same people get together and write the bill this thing could be done. one would think, fairly quickly if we were to talk in these terms. unfortunately, it appears those talking about it seem to want to take it further than it should. two, mika's point has something to do with abortion. you see some states taking steps to make...
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everybody bought the party line and the party line just fed into our worst nightmares about new york. >> what was -- what did you learn about the psychology of the prosecutors and the cops? i remember i interviewed -- she still is creating a story maybe the kids were also involved. >> reputations were made from this and other things. linda fehr has retired and written a novel. >> this is the prosecutor. >> i like to say she continues to write fiction because the original scenario she is clinging to desperately nobody on the cops or the prosecutors would give us an interview. because they couldn't answer any of the questions. their own department reinvestigated and found these kids didn't do it and the district attorney said if i had known then what i know now, i wouldn't have even indicted these kids. there is no dna evidence. there is incredibly bloody crime scene as bob is suggesting but nothing of the crime scene on these kids and none of the kids on the cream scene. a lone semen sample when the rapist confesses is comes together. >> one of the important things it is now 2013 and i
everybody bought the party line and the party line just fed into our worst nightmares about new york. >> what was -- what did you learn about the psychology of the prosecutors and the cops? i remember i interviewed -- she still is creating a story maybe the kids were also involved. >> reputations were made from this and other things. linda fehr has retired and written a novel. >> this is the prosecutor. >> i like to say she continues to write fiction because the original...
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sophisticated over the time, and the kill power increases, and the availability of hundred-round drums that be fed into the weapons increases, that what you have is a situation and reverend, i've watched this over many years. these weapons are very attractive to people who want to remedy a grievance, who just want to kill. they're drawn to these weapons. and they're not -- these weapons aren't hunting weapons. i mean, do you need a 30-round clip and an ar-15 to hunt? i don't think so. >> if you're a bad shot. >> well, that's a point. >> unfortunately, you just won't have any -- >> you don't have to aim. >> that's right. >> so i don't understand, and i never have, why this nation is better, how we protect our people better with these weapons being so easily available. so the bill that i have, which is close to the connecticut bill just signed by the governor, really doesn't take a weapon away from anybody. if they sell that weapon, there's a background check. if they keep that weapon, it has to be kept with a trigger lock and in the safe. and it exempts 2,258 weapons in 96 pages of bill language by
sophisticated over the time, and the kill power increases, and the availability of hundred-round drums that be fed into the weapons increases, that what you have is a situation and reverend, i've watched this over many years. these weapons are very attractive to people who want to remedy a grievance, who just want to kill. they're drawn to these weapons. and they're not -- these weapons aren't hunting weapons. i mean, do you need a 30-round clip and an ar-15 to hunt? i don't think so. >>...